Posted on 04/26/2013 12:27:53 PM PDT by drewh
The new logo for the University of Connecticut’s sports teams is a terrifying husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student.
The new logo was unveiled last week, receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from UConn fans who preferred the older, cuter husky dog.
But one student went much further, criticizing the new, meaner logo for being a pro-rape symbol.
Ads by GoogleIn an open letter to UC President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture.
UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the logo “is looking right through you and saying, ‘Do not mess with me.’ This is a streamlined, fighting dog, and I cannot wait for it to be on our uniforms and court.”
In response, Luby wrote, “What terrifies me about the admiration of such traits is that I know what it feels like to have a real life Husky look straight through you and to feel powerless, and to wonder if even the administration cannot ‘mess with them.’ And I know I am not alone.”
There were two sexual assaults at UConn involving athletes in the past year, Luby claimed.
The logo and the teams it represents are menacing to women, she wrote.
Ads by Google“The face of real life UConn athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women,” wrote Luby.
Herbst did not respond to requests for comment
When Husky girl was little, she leapt at our old, box TV while watching a nature show-there were rabbits hopping around on snow-I barely grabbed her collar in time to save the TV set.
The local McDonalds?
I used to work with a woman and she was no feminist. But she hated that the local HS mascot was the Panthers, and that the girls teams were "Lady Panthers". She felt it was patronizing.
Honey you're not a REAL panther, you're a LADY panther.
This women needs help.
Been there, jumped for that.
;D
Wouldn’t that more properly be “cougars”?
;]
Happy dog....
Does this purported woman mean this dog picture will rape me? Yikes!
"Alright ... she's a dog."
Maybe. The account is now only visible to only her followers.
She has issues with the male athletes. It wouldn’t do much good to tell her that male non-athletes get into trouble too, and that males who are not students get into trouble also. She has herself pegged now for future employment. Anyone hiring her is going to know that she is a walking lawsuit.
I know. Simply add a “no rape” sings under the “no guns” signs and ban images of the new logo larger then 10 inches, unless it registered with UConn Police as an assault mascot.
Guys should bark and howl at her as she walks across campus. An then they should immediately apologize and say they thought she was Sandra Fluke.
“Do college women in Conn. get raped by dogs a lot ?”
Maybe just the cartoon ones.
I found it appalling that he’d been lying to people, and using innocent kids all those years and no one even noticed-or talked if they did-no matter where he did it.
Queerzbian probability: 99.94
I didn't see anything that said that the logo promotes rape. She clearly doesn't like the more "powerful and aggressive" logo, and thinks that the athletic program should have other priorities, like reeducating males to be feminized, but unless she wrote something else, it seems her words were not summarized accurately. Am I missing something? Granted, she is a crackpot (see above description of her academic pursuits).
My buddy was frequenting an aviation website a while back, and he let me read some of the posts from some woman (supposedly) who likened air shows to the Nazi rallies at Nuremburg.
She said aircraft were designed to look like phalluses, and she referred to anything in the military (including aircraft) as “The Sex-Death Object”.
I guess she never heard Freud’s admonition that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
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